A tragic story has been in the front pages of many Iranian dailies about a 45-year-old man suffering from severe pain trying to get care at the neighborhood hospital. The hospital refused to take him in citing his expired insurance coverage. He was required to pay an amount of about $100 as deposit to be admitted, but since he couldn’t come up with the money, he was unable to receive care.
This man who is married and has two young children jumps out of the window of the 4th floor of the hospital to his death. He is in coma right now. 
The state-run Hamshahri daily wrote on April 30 that this incident took place last Friday in Tehran’s Milad Hospital. Ali Shafie entered the hospital asking for medical care while suffering from extreme pain, eyewitnesses reported.
“My brother, Ali Shafie, began suffering extreme pains in the stomach around Friday at noon, and he was on the ground with the agonizing pain. He was transferred to Tehran with a vehicle and brought to Milad Hospital. My showed his [insurance] booklet at the hospital, yet officials said it is expired and he has to provide three million rials (around $95). My brother said he is insured and the booklet was expired only a few days ago, and they can run a check through their system,” said Shafie’s brother.
“However, the hospital officials simply would not back down. They were demanding the three million rials. Neither my brother, nor those accompanying him, had the money. He was suffering from such pains that he finally decided to throw himself off the third floor.”
Shafie suffered serious wounds after this incident and is currently in a coma in intensive care.
“For three million rials they forced my brother into making such a decision. He is married, with two children under the age of 10. Now they say he is in a coma. One person says he is brain dead, while another says there is no hope for him,” his brother says with tears in his eyes.
Meanwhile the Iranian regime’s officials continue to embezzle the nation’s wealth.
In just one example, Nasser Saraj, President of the Iran Observation Organization said in an interview with the state IRNA news agency on November 25, 2015, “An individual was receiving oil from the Iran Oil Ministry and arrangements were made for him to pay the government in return. However, he stole around 1.6 trillion rials of this money (around $30 million) and fled to Canada.”
Based on a report wired by the state Fars news agency on April 14, 2016, former Iranian oil minister Mohammad Gharazi said, “The smuggling statistics in Iran is above $25 billion… yet there is no strong determination seen in officials and authorities to confront this phenomenon.”